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ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – United Nations nuclear experts who crossed into Russian-held territory in Ukraine to assess the safety of Europe’s biggest atomic energy plant were seeking today to assess physical damage to the facility, where both sides warn of possible disaster.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former New York City police officer Thomas Webster, who assaulted police in the Jan.

JACKSON, Miss.,  (Reuters) – Seven new distribution sites opened in Mississippi’s state capital yesterday to dispense bottled water to people who have been without clean tap water since the city’s long-troubled treatment plant failed four days ago.

EAST LONDON, South Africa,  (Reuters) – Twenty one young people who died in a tavern tragedy in June were suffocated, five parents said on Thursday, relaying to reporters what health department officials told them was the conclusion of an official probe.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – A Malaysian court today sentenced Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, to a decade in prison for seeking and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts, just days after her husband was jailed for corruption.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil LKOH.MM,

(Reuters) – China’s “arbitrary and discriminatory detention” of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the country’s Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing U.N.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine,  (Reuters) – United Nations inspectors in Ukraine were due today to visit a Russian-occupied nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, where nearby shelling has prompted bitter recriminations and global fears of disaster.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba, mired in an energy crisis that has brought frequent blackouts, is negotiating with a Turkish company to have it double the megawatts it currently produces for the country from shipboard generators just offshore, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest surged in August to the highest for the month since 2010, government data showed on Wednesday, surpassing the blazes in August 2019 that drew global attention soon after President Jair Bolsonaro took office.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s aides are reaching out to Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo to form a united front of countries with the most tropical rainforest at this year’s U.N.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – U.N. nuclear inspectors set off in convoy for Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant today after weeks of shelling nearby sparked fears of a Chornobyl-style radiation disaster, with tensions rising between Kyiv and Moscow over the visit.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba, mired in an energy crisis that has brought frequent blackouts, is negotiating with a Turkish company to have it double the megawatts it currently produces for the country from shipboard generators just offshore, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine/KYIV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Russian soldiers to flee for their lives after his forces launched an offensive to retake southern Ukraine, but Moscow said it had repulsed the attack and inflicted heavy losses on Kyiv’s troops.

(Reuters) – Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died yesterday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

CHARSADDA, Pakistan,  (Reuters) – Torrential rains and flooding have submerged a third of Pakistan and killed more than 1,100 people, including 380 children as the United Nations appealed for aid yesterday for what it described as an “unprecedented climate catastrophe.”

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died today at the age of 91, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials as saying.

 (Reuters) – A Moscow prosecutor has asked a court to declare as “extremist” the work of rapper Oxxxymiron, one of Russia’s most popular musicians, who has publicly opposed the invasion of Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – Iraq’s powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers to end their protests in central Baghdad today, easing a confrontation which led to the deadliest violence in the Iraqi capital in years.

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine/KYIV,  (Reu-ters) – Ukraine said it broke through enemy lines in several places near the southern city of Kherson as it pressed a new campaign to retake territory while Moscow said Kyiv’s counter-offensive had failed as Russia shelled the port city of Mykolaiv.